The Story of China’s Aircraft Carrier Launch Is Flat Out Strange. A slice: “… the carrier was actually a rogue acquisition for the Chinese military against the wishes of the government in Beijing. And it was undertaken by a basketball player who claimed he wanted to build a floating casino.”
Why the Air Force put Kubernetes in an F-16. To get the containers working on the jets, the team had to “bring the entire stack with us,” Chaillan said. Read the whole thing. Part of a larger shift in acquisition?
New DoDI 5000.81, Urgent Capability. New DoDD 5134.01, Software Acquisition Pathways. Updated DoDI 5000.74, Acquisition of Services. And of course new DoDI 5000.80, Middle Tier Acquisition. That is four out of six acquisition swim lanes. All will abide by the upcoming Cybersecurity regulation, 5000.xx.
45th Space Wing of Space Force to hold a pitch day and use commercial solutions openings, focusing on 9 problem areas.
AFRL posts Unicorn Blue notice. “… develop digital signal processing capabilities that will scan through the Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum to detect high priority emissions.” Check out the Cost-Plus Fixed Fee contract limit: $49.9 million. If it were $100K more, then Earned Value Management System would have had to apply! Reminds me of when Rickover complained a steel firm split an order in more than 60 individual orders to keep them under the TINA cost-pricing threshold.
The Creation of a U.S. Space Force: It’s Only the End of the Beginning.
KC-46A Pegasus completes first around-the-world flight. Took 13 days… compare that to the circumnavigation record for commercial flight at just a bit over 2 days — 52 hours 34 minutes.
What Are the Differences Between Project Manager and Scrum Master. Video.
Idaho is the Least Regulated State and a Model for the Rest of the Country. Cut more than 1,800 pages of regulations in 2019. Something the DoD could learn from.
Kessel Run: a “Day in the Life” at a DoD Software Factory. Recommended video.
Military Procurement Approaches Convey Different Signals to Industry. “Already the defense industry—in certain segments, at least—feels taxed by the pace and variety of change.”
Lockheed’s Long-Troubled F-35 Shows Improvement, Pentagon Finds. While delivering 134 aircraft on time is a good sign, I’d like to see higher airframe availability (rather than single-mission capable rates, which doesn’t count being in depot).
Related. Lockheed Martin Proposes PBL Plan to Hit F-35 Operating Costs on Time… by 2033.
The road to getting the F-35s up and ready for Singapore.
Air Force to end Raytheon’s troubled contract for ground-based radar and look for new options. “The system was slated to replace the AN/TPS-75 ground-based radar used to detect and track airborne targets.”
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